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They say the thirst of blood is like a madness - they must sate it. Even with their own kin.
On the eve of her divining, the day she'll discover her fate, seventeen-year-old Lil and her twin sister Kizzy are captured and enslaved by the cruel Boyar Valcar, taken far away from their beloved traveller community.
Forced to work in the harsh and unwelcoming castle kitchens, Lil ...more
On the eve of her divining, the day she'll discover her fate, seventeen-year-old Lil and her twin sister Kizzy are captured and enslaved by the cruel Boyar Valcar, taken far away from their beloved traveller community.
Forced to work in the harsh and unwelcoming castle kitchens, Lil ...more
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Hardcover, 304 pages
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September 19th 2019
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3.5 stars.
The Deathless Girls is part of a series from Bellatrix focussing on the girls forgotten to literature. Those female characters that have been sidelined in epic stories to allow others to shine, and have been lost in the background. But more than that, this is a story about female love and relationships. It’s full of sisterly love, a sapphic romance, the brutality of life and to top it all off - vampires. Kizzy and Lil are 17 year old traveller twins who are captured and sold into slav ...more
The Deathless Girls is part of a series from Bellatrix focussing on the girls forgotten to literature. Those female characters that have been sidelined in epic stories to allow others to shine, and have been lost in the background. But more than that, this is a story about female love and relationships. It’s full of sisterly love, a sapphic romance, the brutality of life and to top it all off - vampires. Kizzy and Lil are 17 year old traveller twins who are captured and sold into slav ...more
this sounds gay and dark and amazing and if it isn’t actually gay I will be very upset
Gorgeous cover, but The Deathless Girls doesn’t deliver until it’s final pages.
OK, here's the thing: I like traditional vampires. I like them dark and sinister, charming their way from meal to meal while being true and unapologetic monsters. Not the "vegetarian" variety full of existential angst and bullshit like that. Nevertheless, since I usually can't resist anything vampiristic, I thought a take on the brides could be interesting (plus: look at that cover!).
We open with a quote from Catherynne Valente so we were off to a very good start indeed. What followed was the de ...more
We open with a quote from Catherynne Valente so we were off to a very good start indeed. What followed was the de ...more
I feel this book had so much more potential. What it ultimately delivered was a very lacklustre piece of gothic style fiction.
The Deathless Girls is a book that aims to give agency to the story of the brides of Dracula from the original Dracula novel. And while I have never read Dracula so ultimately can’t truly compare the two I feel that this didn’t quite fulfil its brief.
CONTENT WARNINGS: I wish to mention that this book has some very graphic descriptions of animal abuse (Bite wine) and there ...more
The Deathless Girls is a book that aims to give agency to the story of the brides of Dracula from the original Dracula novel. And while I have never read Dracula so ultimately can’t truly compare the two I feel that this didn’t quite fulfil its brief.
CONTENT WARNINGS: I wish to mention that this book has some very graphic descriptions of animal abuse (Bite wine) and there ...more
"They came to call us the three sisters - two dark, one fair - and worse. The beautiful damned, the brides of Dracul, the deathless girls."
I didn't realise the requirement for a feminist retelling of a classic was to make it boring (I'd like to apologise in advance as it's about to get real frosty in here).
A story focusing on the vampire brides of Dracula. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?!
... how about the fact that it was boring, boring; my brain has shut down and gone into hibernation mode; ...more
‘A vampyre cannot love, only thirst. And that, above all else, is what truly damns us.’
This was an excellent re-imagining of the brides of Dracula, very evocative. 4.5 stars.
This was an excellent re-imagining of the brides of Dracula, very evocative. 4.5 stars.
Mar 14, 2019
Amy Imogene Reads
marked it as to-read
That cover though...
Sep 29, 2019
christina
rated it
really liked it
Recommends it for:
fans of Uprooted + The Sisters of the Winter Wood
really enjoyed this one, and it was a quick read - perfect for a halloween book in october :)
✅ strong sister dynamic
✅ positive f/f relationship
✅ historical fiction aboutgypsies travellers
✅ dark dracula retelling
✅ twist ending
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✅ strong sister dynamic
✅ positive f/f relationship
✅ historical fiction about
✅ dark dracula retelling
✅ twist ending
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Jun 02, 2019
♡ jules ♡
marked it as to-read
2019/2020 are officially the vampires comeback and i'm loving the hell out of this
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The Deathless Girls by Kiran Millwood Hargrave is an re-imagining of the story of the three brides of Dracula. This immediately piqued my interest because I’d already read Bram Stoker's masterpiece and I certainly appreciate a good vampire story (thank you Twilight!). This book, although vampires are a theme here, is on a different level though - the story easily suits a modern twist. It's a cleverly crafted tale, with storytelling that is both rich and delicate.
I thought the idea of focusing on ...more
I thought the idea of focusing on ...more
I loved it omg but THE ENDING SERIOUSLY? I HOPE WE GOT A SECOND BOOKS BECAUSE I’M CURRENTLY DYING. I'M IN SHOCK. WHERE IS THE MISSING PAGES? THIS IS NOT POSSIBLE
What I love the most about this book : The atmosphere gothic and dark without being to hard or bloody. Love the mix with Dracula's bride story. I think I’m so in a mood for vampire.
And the things that made me happy f/f made me melt like a marshmallow. I love my girls so badly and I want to protect them.
Even if sometimes I felt that was ...more
What I love the most about this book : The atmosphere gothic and dark without being to hard or bloody. Love the mix with Dracula's bride story. I think I’m so in a mood for vampire.
And the things that made me happy f/f made me melt like a marshmallow. I love my girls so badly and I want to protect them.
Even if sometimes I felt that was ...more
I started this at 5pm and finished it at 02:45am. Needless to say, it's addicting, poetically written, dark and dangerous. If you're a fan of retellings, Dracula and the myths and legends surrounding him, then this book is for you.
Full review to come! ...more
Full review to come! ...more
Rep: Romani wlw mc, Romani characters
CWs: murder, violence, implied sexual harrassment, attempted sexual assault
• oh god can we talk how badly the author researched Romanian - using a plural form in place of a singular, using a singular form in place of a plural, MAKING UP a singular form for a word, getting the plural form of a word wrong, using a definite noun where an indefinite one is needed, deciding randomly to show that she knows how Romanian definite articles work only to go back to usin ...more
CWs: murder, violence, implied sexual harrassment, attempted sexual assault
• oh god can we talk how badly the author researched Romanian - using a plural form in place of a singular, using a singular form in place of a plural, MAKING UP a singular form for a word, getting the plural form of a word wrong, using a definite noun where an indefinite one is needed, deciding randomly to show that she knows how Romanian definite articles work only to go back to usin ...more
When I heard this would be a fleshing out of the so-called "brides" of Dracula written as a YA, I was worried that it would devolve into something a little less dark than what it really came to be.
Thank goodness, right?
There is a rather powerful trend to make vampires less... scary... these days, and building a mystique that lets us approve of these "brides" makes me feel some unease. Fortunately, the core of THIS tale is the brutality of being used and abused on the outskirts of accepted civi ...more
Thank goodness, right?
There is a rather powerful trend to make vampires less... scary... these days, and building a mystique that lets us approve of these "brides" makes me feel some unease. Fortunately, the core of THIS tale is the brutality of being used and abused on the outskirts of accepted civi ...more
Started this book with Zero Expectation and turns out i really enjoyed this one. The Writing style is easy to read and also gripping me from the start! i definetly will read more books from this author
I love this story is Gothic and dark, with magic and gypsy and vampires.
The story is from single POV (Lillai) we followed her and her twin sister journey when they got abducted and became slaves
The plot is pretty simple but i love how the story is about sisterhood, how close Lillai and her twin sis ...more
I love this story is Gothic and dark, with magic and gypsy and vampires.
The story is from single POV (Lillai) we followed her and her twin sister journey when they got abducted and became slaves
The plot is pretty simple but i love how the story is about sisterhood, how close Lillai and her twin sis ...more
more of the immortal vampyre brides getting revenge on shitty men pls and thank you
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I was really excited to read this especially as it is an origin story of the three vampire brides in Dracula - so I was pleased to receive a copy from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. It started off really well and I really began to care for the two sisters who were the main characters - however as I read more I became a little bit bored with the storyline and it was quite slow in terms of plot and action and not as scary as I was hoping.
The villains were also one-dimensional caricatu ...more
The villains were also one-dimensional caricatu ...more
Can you hear the sound of crushing disappointment coming from me? I was looking so forward to this book as soon as I saw it on Goodreads. Dracula is one of my favorite books ever (seriously, I named my cat Mina). This is a book about the vampire brides of Dracula and I could already picture myself devouring this feminist and deliciously gothic retelling. This book should have been amazing, the story of the brides of Dracula should have been amazing. Well, it's not so much a retelling since they'
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The Deathless Girls is billed as the untold story of the Brides of Dracula (who feature briefly in Bram Stoker's book). Following twins Kizzy and Lil, Romani travellers who, on their 17th birthday are kidnapped and enslaved by the feared local lord, the Boyar Valcar. Taken to his castle and put into service, the girls face adversity together until, on the orders of the Boyar, Kizzy is taken as a gift for Dracul. Although beautifully and evocatively written, I found it puzzling that the focus was
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I don’t really know what to think of this... it felt like a cross over of a few different stories for example: Girls of Paper and Fire and An Ember in the Ashes; that’s just the first thing that popped into my head but I’m pretty sure other books that deal with slavery and doing certain things, mainly picked up on it because of cook...
I genuinely really wanted to enjoy this, but for me personally everything felt slightly flat, I couldn’t tell you a lot about the characters, the romance really an ...more
I genuinely really wanted to enjoy this, but for me personally everything felt slightly flat, I couldn’t tell you a lot about the characters, the romance really an ...more
Major disappointment. Lacking plot, poor characterisation, flat and uninspiring "romance". I was led to believe this is a sapphic vampire book; it is not - vampires are only a part of the final ~10%, and barely at that, and while there is a F/F relationship, it is so blandly written with such one-dimensional characters that I wanted to throw the book across the room.
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"A vampyre cannot love, only thirst. And that, above all else, is what truly damns us."
This is quite possibly one of the most boring books I've ever read. It takes ages for the plot to move and when it does it gets nowhere particularly interesting.
The book's 300 pages long.
The first 200 pages have the protagonist thinking about how beautiful, amazing, intelligent, spectacular, out of this world her identical twin is, whilst our protagonist's average and not worth notice, of course.
The following ...more
This is quite possibly one of the most boring books I've ever read. It takes ages for the plot to move and when it does it gets nowhere particularly interesting.
The book's 300 pages long.
The first 200 pages have the protagonist thinking about how beautiful, amazing, intelligent, spectacular, out of this world her identical twin is, whilst our protagonist's average and not worth notice, of course.
The following ...more
Okay not at all what I was expecting and I'm highly troubled and confused by the current GR score of 3.65/5
I really liked this from start to finish. It's one of those books that sort of changes genres part way through which always keeps it interesting for me. I do wish the ending wasn't so hasty. Give it another chapter or two? I enjoyed the characters a lot but especially the dynamic between the sisters. I want to do some more research into the book now as well because I feel like it pulled in ...more
I really liked this from start to finish. It's one of those books that sort of changes genres part way through which always keeps it interesting for me. I do wish the ending wasn't so hasty. Give it another chapter or two? I enjoyed the characters a lot but especially the dynamic between the sisters. I want to do some more research into the book now as well because I feel like it pulled in ...more
Nope! Maybe because I’m Romanian, this book didn’t work for me. Sorry. Nevertheless beautiful looking book.
Apr 10, 2020
Stacey (prettybooks)
rated it
liked it
Shelves:
read-in-my-thirties,
young-adult-fiction
Note: I read this for the YA Book Prize 2020 (I'm one of the judges, hooray!).
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I really enjoyed this though it was super sad! I was rooting for Lil and Kizzy, even though I didn't really like them. I actually found the ending super satisfying.
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I don't really know what to think. It's completely different to how I expected from reading blurbs. The ending was strange and completely unexpected.
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4.5/5 stars
I am going through so many emotions right now, oh my god.
this book is so beautiful and sad and quiet and soft. I don’t even know how to put into words how much I enjoyed it.
this book is a look into kizzy & lil’s journey together through horrors, heartbreak, and love. it’s not for everyone at all. the plot really doesn’t pick up until 100 pages in and we don’t see actual vampires until 200. so this is not necessarily a vampire book but it is a beautiful historical fantasy with themes ...more
I am going through so many emotions right now, oh my god.
this book is so beautiful and sad and quiet and soft. I don’t even know how to put into words how much I enjoyed it.
this book is a look into kizzy & lil’s journey together through horrors, heartbreak, and love. it’s not for everyone at all. the plot really doesn’t pick up until 100 pages in and we don’t see actual vampires until 200. so this is not necessarily a vampire book but it is a beautiful historical fantasy with themes ...more
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Her books include the bestselling winner of the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2017 The Girl of Ink & Stars, and Costa Book Awards- and Blue Peter Awards-shortlisted The Island at the End of Everything, and The Way Past Winter , Blackwell's Children's Book of the ...more
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“All my life I saw my inaction as harmless. I was happy to stand by while Kizzy made decisions, while she ran toward danger or threat, answered back to insults. I thought my silence, my stillness, was a fine way to be. But now I realised it made me as bad as those men who took the side of a monster, who watched a locked door as children starved to death inside.”
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